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Archive: News / World / Latin America (10 Stories)

As Carnival fever seizes Rio, some seek escape

02/08/2013 9:34am
As samba queens get final touch-ups on their sequins and feathers and hundreds of thousands of revelers take command of Rio's streets for Carnival's opening on Friday, Leo Name is hunkering down. The self-avowed Carnival Scrooge has stocked up on frozen TV dinners and hopes he won't have to set foot outside his apartment during the five days of festivities.

Stolen Matisse painting to be returned to Caracas

02/08/2013 12:38pm
A painting by Henri Matisse stolen more than a decade ago from a museum in Venezuela will soon be returned to the country, officials said Friday.

Neruda foundation supports exhumation for autopsy

02/08/2013 1:11pm
The body of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda will be exhumed for an autopsy seeking clues to what killed him.

Argentine media say govt taking away advertising

02/08/2013 1:52pm
Argentina's newspapers say supermarket and appliance companies have been told to stop advertising during a price freeze the government imposed to stem inflation.

Argentine Jews suspicious of deal on bombing probe

02/08/2013 3:22pm
Argentine Jewish leaders are opposing a deal with Iran that President Cristina Fernandez sent to congress Friday for approval.

Haitian schools expand use of Creole language

02/08/2013 5:12pm
In a Feb. 6 story, The Associated Press portrayed the private Louverture Cleary School as emphasizing Haitian Creole. The school says it uses primarily Haitian Creole in an early education program for the community and then uses a curriculum that includes Creole, French, Spanish and English for older children. School officials say they don't favor a single language.

5 Mexico newspaper employees kidnapped, released

02/08/2013 5:51pm
Five non-editorial employees of a newspaper in northern Mexico were kidnapped but released within a few hours, the company said in an editorial posted on its website Friday. It complained there is a lack of security for news workers in the violence-plagued region around the city of Torreon.

Guatemala declares national coffee emergency

02/08/2013 6:57pm
Guatemala's president declared a national emergency Friday over the spread of coffee rust, saying the fungus that has hit other Central American countries is affecting 70 percent of this nation's crop.

Honduras sends soldiers to fight crime in 2 cities

02/08/2013 7:35pm
Honduran President Porfirio Lobo has deployed 1,400 soldiers to fight street gangs in the country's two biggest and most violent cities.

Mexico says Pemex blast death toll still at 37

02/08/2013 10:35pm
Mexico's federal Health Department said Friday night that a statement it issued earlier in the day listing a death of a person injured by last week's explosion at the headquarters of the country's state-owned oil company did not mean the disaster's death toll had risen from 37.
 
   
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